Abstract
This study examined the perception of the high school choral experience as a function of gender, grade level, and musical experience. The perception of meaning of choral experience was defined by five factors of musical-artistic, achievement, integrative, communicative, and psychological as defined by Hylton (1980). Participants included 84 choral students from two public high schools in the State of Indiana. Among the participants, 29 students came from a small high school with approximately 400 students, and 55 students came from a high school with approximately 1000 students. A modified version of Hylton's (1980) Choral Meaning Survey was used. The 84 participants were asked to indicate their agreement or disagreement to each item on a 5 point Likert-type scale. The result show that all the factors of the Choral Meaning Survey received high means. The students responded most positively to items related to achievement dimensions. A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) procedure was employed. The main effects of gender, grade level, musical experience and their interaction effects were non significant.
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Kawn, Eva
(2002)
"Perception of the Meaning of High School Choral Experience,"
Visions of Research in Music Education: Vol. 2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/vrme/vol2/iss1/3